| Description |
1 online resource (xl, 155 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxv-xxxvi). |
| Contents |
Introduction; Note on the Text; Note on the Illustrations; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of the Abbé Prévost; MANON LESCAUT; Explanatory Notes. |
| Summary |
The story of Manon Lescaut is a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from eighteenth-century Paris - with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses - via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement among the treeless wastes of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic. This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were published in the edition of 1753. - ;'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin - did not allow me to hesita. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
France -- History -- Fiction.
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France. |
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History. |
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Louisiana -- History -- Fiction.
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Louisiana. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Scholar, Angela.
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| Added Title |
Manon Lescaut. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91055798
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| Cover Title |
Manon Lescaut |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763. Manon Lescaut. English. Story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2004299799 |
| ISBN |
9780191517914 (electronic book) |
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0191517917 (electronic book) |
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0192840657 (Paper) |
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